Friday, May 8th, 2015
why are you doing this?…
Archive for May, 2015
‘Grit.’
Friday, May 8th, 2015Cultivated with experience, this is a firmness of mind and spirit. It’s unyielding courage in the face of hardship or danger- an inherent capacity to persist despite experiencing difficulty, setbacks, failure and fear. When we ‘fall’, we simply get back up and start again… and again. It’s an unwavering intent deeply motivated by passion and […]
Awakening
Friday, May 8th, 2015It’s not how we ‘sit’ that truly matters, but WHY we ‘sit’. It is having a clear INTENTION that will sustain our practice…
Awakening
Thursday, May 7th, 2015Do we really know how to pay close attention… to quickly realize our mind has wandered and to reflexively bring it back… over & over again?
In this moment…
Wednesday, May 6th, 2015Running from ‘this’ to ‘that’, I woke up and it was next week… next month… next year. At what point do we finally wake up and take back the life we are letting slip away with all of our relative busyness to get everywhere else but in this MOMENT?…
Awakening
Wednesday, May 6th, 2015The quality of our attention can condition how we ‘see’ and what we may come to know. This quality of attention can create a clarity mind to see and to know the nature of what we are truly experiencing… moment by moment.
Beyond the Drama of ‘Self’
Wednesday, May 6th, 2015Do we see clearly our condition of mind- all the assumptions and judgments? Do we see how we label and categorize perceptions of mind- what is ‘good’, ‘bad’, and ‘neutral’? Do we notice our fixation and grasping tendencies of what is labeled ‘good’? How about our rejection, denial, and avoidance of what is labeled as […]
Awakening
Tuesday, May 5th, 2015Perhaps this meditation practice is a means to uncover the ‘nature’ of our own being as it was meant to be?… Peeling away the layers of our conditioning may we realize our true humanity?